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If our politicians are truly concerned about protecting women and children, they should abandon their relentless assault on abortion rights and tackle the real issues facing girls and women in this state.

Due to a tragic confluence of a lumbering criminal-justice system that gives prosecutors preference over defendants and ignores the sometimes obvious mental health challenges of the people it locks up, the lives of Larry David McLaurin and Markuieze Bennett ended in the Raymond Detention Center.

Empower Mississippi, a nonprofit dedicated to school choice, used its political arm, the Empower PAC, to unseat four incumbent Republican candidates for the Mississippi House of Representatives in the DeSoto County primary elections on Aug. 4.